The Law of Nations;
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the necessity of chastising an unjust and barbarous nation, of checking her brutality, and preserving ourselves from her depredations. Who can doubt that the kmg of Spain and the powers of Italy have a very good right utterly to destroy those maritime towns of Africa, those nests of pirates, that are con- tinually molesting their commerce and ruining their subjects?
But what nation will proceed to such extremities merely for the sake of punishing the hostile sovereign ? It is but in- directly t...hat he will feel the punishment : and how great the cruelty, to ruin an innocent people in order to reach him !
The same prince whose firmness and just resentment was com- mended in the bombardment of Algiers, was, after that of Genoa, accused of pride and inhumanity^ 2. We ravage a country and render it uninhabitable, in order to make it serve us as a barrier, and to cover our frontier against an enemy whose incursions we are unable to check by any other means.
A cruel expedient, it is true : but why should we not be al- lowed to adopt it at the expense of the enemy, since, with the same view, we readily submit to lay waste our own provinces ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
the necessity of chastising an unjust and barbarous nation, of checking her brutality, and preserving ourselves from her depredations. Who can doubt that the kmg of Spain and the powers of Italy have a very good right utterly to destroy those maritime towns of Africa, those nests of pirates, that are con- tinually molesting their commerce and ruining their subjects?
But what nation will proceed to such extremities merely for the sake of punishing the hostile sovereign ? It is but in- directly t...hat he will feel the punishment : and how great the cruelty, to ruin an innocent people in order to reach him !
The same prince whose firmness and just resentment was com- mended in the bombardment of Algiers, was, after that of Genoa, accused of pride and inhumanity^ 2. We ravage a country and render it uninhabitable, in order to make it serve us as a barrier, and to cover our frontier against an enemy whose incursions we are unable to check by any other means.
A cruel expedient, it is true : but why should we not be al- lowed to adopt it at the expense of the enemy, since, with the same view, we readily submit to lay waste our own provinces ?
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Emer De Vattel to read onlineMoreLess
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